All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

We learn to wield our own strengths, and fear flips over — dead! – Terri Guillemets, “Getting along, stopping not,” 2007